[PATCH 6.6 041/166] tracing/probe: reject non-closed empty immediate strings

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-24T13:35:16Z

From: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>

[ Upstream commit 4346be6577aaa04586167402ae87bbdbe32484a4 ]

parse_probe_arg() accepts quoted immediate strings and passes the body
after the opening quote to __parse_imm_string(). That helper currently
computes strlen(str) and immediately dereferences str[len - 1], which
underflows when the body is empty and not closed with double-quotation.

Reject empty non-closed immediate strings before checking for the closing quote.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260401160315.88518-1-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn/

Fixes: a42e3c4de964 ("tracing/probe: Add immediate string parameter support")
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index 187b1fc403c13..d46a1033ba5b3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ static int __parse_imm_string(char *str, char **pbuf, int offs)
{
size_t len = strlen(str);

- if (str[len - 1] != '"') {
+ if (!len || str[len - 1] != '"') {
trace_probe_log_err(offs + len, IMMSTR_NO_CLOSE);
return -EINVAL;
}
--
2.53.0